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IMMpress Volume 14 Issue 2 – Sex, Immunity, and Reproduction

Ana Sofia Mendoza ViruegaOctober 5, 2026October 5, 2026

Every day it becomes clearer that the immune system is a universe of infinite connections. This issue explores the intricate relationship between sex, immunity, and reproduction; factors often dismissed as...

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The Little Blue Pill: from Bench (to Bedroom) to Bedside

Victoria SephtonOctober 5, 2026October 5, 2026

Drug discovery has a habit of rewarding researchers for finding exactly what they weren’t looking for. From hair-loss treatments to anxiety medications, pharmacy shelves are lined with myriad remedies whose...

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Undercover in the Uterus

Yashar Aghazadeh HabashiOctober 5, 2026October 5, 2026

Pregnancy is, immunologically speaking, an affront. The immune system is one of evolution's more ruthless achievements: a surveillance apparatus that spends a lifetime cataloguing the body's own proteins with bureaucratic...

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The Delicate Immunology of the Testes

Jonathan MonteiroOctober 5, 2026October 5, 2026

At first glance, sperm appear to be relatively unremarkable cells churned out by the body. They are small, stripped of most cellular machinery, and produced in staggeringly large numbers –...

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Before Pictures

Rishabh JohriOctober 2, 2025October 2, 2025

Cryo-electron microscopy, photon counting-computed tomography, quantum imaging – these are a few modern developments that have allowed scientists to capture microscopic details at ultra-resolution. Researchers today have a vast arsenal...

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Every Placenta Has a Story – An Interview with Dr. Lena Serghides

Mariam ParashosOctober 5, 2026October 5, 2026

For Dr. Lena Serghides, some of the most important lessons about pregnancy research did not come from a laboratory; they came from listening. They came from women living with HIV...

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Immunocontraception — Harnessing immune cells for social equity?

Deeva UthayakumarOctober 5, 2026

The quest for safe and effective birth control strategies has been a long-standing matter in society, with the earliest methods conceived in ancient times. Women in ancient Egypt had brewed...

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Letter from the Chair, Dr. Jennifer Gommerman – Volume 14 Issue 2, 2026

Jennifer GommermanOctober 5, 2026October 5, 2026

Beyond this point, there by dragons? In thinking about my commentary on this latest IMMpress Magazine issue entitled ‘Sex, Immunity, and Reproduction,’ I asked AI to reveal quotations that sum...

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Letter from the Editors —Volume 14 Issue 2, 2026

IMMpressOctober 5, 2026

The immune system responds to signals from nearly every part of our physiology, including our microbiome, hormones, and reproductive organs. In this issue of IMMpress Magazine on Sex, Immunity and...

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Females and Autoimmunity: What’s Behind the Bias?

Carmen UcciferriOctober 5, 2026

The immune system is an elegant and highly refined network of cells, organs, and proteins, but in approximately 10% of the world’s population, it goes haywire. Autoimmune diseases occur when...

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Immune Adaptations Across Pregnancy

Mariam ParashosOctober 5, 2026

Few physiological processes challenge the immune system quite like pregnancy. The embryo carries genetic material from two people, making it “foreign” within its own mother. Under ordinary circumstances, the immune...

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Outsmarting Viruses: Challenges Behind HIV Vaccine Development

Alina MehraOctober 5, 2026

Human Immunodeficiency Virus, commonly known as HIV, is a well-known and significant health challenge across the globe. It is a viral infection that targets and attacks the body’s immune system...

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Sex Differences in Osteoimmunology

Jonathan MonteiroOctober 5, 2026October 5, 2026

One often thinks of bone as biologically inert. In fact, as it is made up of hard, mineralized material, skeletal tissue externally bears the appearance of an organ with very...

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Mind the Gap: how overlooking sex compromises research

Annie PuOctober 5, 2026October 5, 2026

What shapes the way each of us responds to the world around us? One influential biological variable is sex: the combination of chromosomes, hormones, and reproductive anatomy that governs both...

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It Takes Two: Couple-Level Genital Health Interventions Shape Local Immunity

Jinny TsangOctober 5, 2026

Every year, millions of women seek treatment for bacterial vaginosis—yet more than half experience recurrence within six months. Growing evidence suggests one reason may be that clinicians are treating only half of...